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Anittel reduces customer malware problems with Webroot

By Hamish Barwick | 19 April, 2013 12:22

Managed service provider Anittel Group (ASX: AYG) has reduced the number of hours fixing customer malware problems since it chose Webroot as its managed antivirus service.

NBN Co to launch 1 Gigabit wholesale broadband service in December

By Hamish Barwick | 19 April, 2013 10:23

NBN Co has announced that it will be launching a 1 Gigabit wholesale broadband service by December 2013 to areas that can access the National Broadband Network (NBN).

ASE IT moves into iseek’s Sydney data centre

By Hamish Barwick | 18 April, 2013 15:39

Cloud services provider ASE IT has signed a contract with iseek Communications to move into the vendor’s data centre in Gore Hill, Sydney.

Marketing is driving big data adoption: IDC

By Hamish Barwick | 18 April, 2013 13:47

IT decision makers are not the only drivers for big data adoption as the marketing department is also playing a large part in this, according to IDC's Australia telecommunications group associate director, Dustin Kehoe.

Big data projects a focus for Australian mid-market: IDC

By Hamish Barwick | 18 April, 2013 11:17

Big data is not only widely used by large enterprises in Australia as the mid-market is also taking advantage of it to make decisions faster, according to new research from IDC Australia.

Boeing backs metadata for information security

By Hamish Barwick | 16 April, 2013 14:39

Metadata – 'data about data' such as the non-image-related information stored when people snap a photo on a digital camera – should be used to label corporate information according to one US security specialist.

Australian Rugby Union scrums down with technology

By Hamish Barwick | 15 April, 2013 12:14

Getting fans to buy tickets for rugby union tours, such as the upcoming British Lions tour, has been made easier for the Australian Rugby Union (ARU) thanks to its customer relationship management (CRM) system.

In pictures: ASX Liquidity Centre

By Hamish Barwick | 15 April, 2013 10:20

The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) took the media on a tour of its Australian Liquidity Centre data centre in Gore Hill, Sydney. The ALC provides co-location services and data centre space to customers, allowing them to place trading equipment in cabinets within the same facility as the ASX and the ASX 24 primary matching engines.

Australian universities to research Web threats with Trend Micro

By Hamish Barwick | 11 April, 2013 14:12

Trend Micro has teamed up with Deakin and Macquarie universities for the purposes of online security research and development.

Smaller cell systems needed for power hungry 4G networks: CEET

By Hamish Barwick | 11 April, 2013 13:01

4G long term evolution (LTE) networks could consume up to 59.3 per cent of wireless cloud energy by 2015, according to research by the Centre for Energy Efficient Telecommunications (CEET).

TransACT goes back to the future with retrofit data centre

By Hamish Barwick | 11 April, 2013 10:10

Retrofitting a Canberra data centre built in 1971 proved more cost effective for iiNet subsidiary TransACT than tearing it down.

FireEye hires its first A/NZ regional director

By Hamish Barwick | 10 April, 2013 11:27

In order to better serve customers in Australia and New Zealand, FireEye has hired its first A/NZ regional director Phil Vasic.

Windows XP: The final countdown

By Hamish Barwick | 09 April, 2013 15:05

Microsoft Australia has warned enterprise customers that they only have one year left of Windows XP support and security updates.

Macquarie Telecom to host Intersect supercomputer

By Hamish Barwick | 09 April, 2013 13:34

Macquarie Telecom (ASX: MAQ) has signed a deal to host Intersect’s high performance computing (HPC) system called Orange in its Intellicentre 2 (IC2) data centre in Sydney.

Easy to read websites pay off for Vision Australia

By Hamish Barwick | 09 April, 2013 11:30

Text heavy websites which readers found hard to navigate are a thing of the past at not-for-profit Vision Australia.

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